MAIN PARADIGMS SHAPING THE CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL WORLD (“THE GREATER EUROPE” AND “THE GREATER EURASIA” RUSSIAN PROJECTS)
MAIN PARADIGMS SHAPING THE CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL WORLD (“THE GREATER EUROPE” AND “THE GREATER EURASIA” RUSSIAN PROJECTS)

Author(s): Mădălina Virginia Antonescu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Civil Society, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment, Politics and Identity
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: Eurasian “Looking East” mega-trend; Pacific area; Russian worldwide strategies; rising powers;
Summary/Abstract: Our paper proposes a brief exploration of both key-geopolitical paradigms(Pacific century and Eurasian century), whose interaction, due to divergent interests of the current great powers might offer an interesting insight into the general evolution (and reset)of the entire contemporary political world. We are taking into account the present profile of an international system shaped mainly by the rising powers, in a kind of asymmetrical multipolarity. The Pacific geopolitical extension of the Eurasian trend that Russia, as a rising power and global actor, has already deployed in this key-area, shows the inner dynamism of an order in full stage of reconstruction, in which rising powers (Russia) are revealing themselves as controllers of the declining political global order, as well as promoters of the new “Eurasian century”.

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